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Nurix Therapeutics

Drug discovery targeting ubiquitin E3 ligases

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Hematology-Oncology

Full-Time
$348k - $399k
Expert
PharmD, PhD, MD
Brisbane, CA, USA
In Person
Biology & Biotech

About the job

Requirements
  • MD, PhD, DO, or PharmD is required, along with oncology or hematology experience.
  • At least 15 years of biopharmaceutical Medical Affairs experience with significant leadership responsibility, including direct accountability for launch and post-approval.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience supporting late-stage development and commercialization of hematology-oncology therapies, including launch planning, scientific positioning, and post-approval medical strategy.
  • Expertise in evidence generation, including Phase 3b/4, real-world evidence, and health economics and outcomes research; scientific communications; Medical Science Liaison leadership; and cross-functional launch planning.
  • Strong understanding of global and U.S. regulatory, compliance, and payer environments related to medical activities and drug promotion.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on in a fast-moving pre-commercial and launch environment.
Responsibilities
  • Lead and scale the Medical Affairs function to support hematology-oncology programs progressing into late-stage clinical development and future commercial readiness.
  • Own the overall Medical Affairs strategy for the hematology-oncology portfolio, aligning it with development plans, portfolio priorities, and corporate objectives.
  • Lead development of the scientific platform and differentiated medical narrative for hematology-oncology programs within evolving treatment landscapes.
  • Partner with Clinical Development to shape late-stage medical strategy, including data-generation priorities, scientific narrative, external engagement plans, and lifecycle opportunities.
  • Develop and execute integrated medical plans across field medical, scientific communications, publications, medical education, medical information, insight gathering, and evidence generation.
  • Expand and lead a high-performing Medical Science Liaison organization focused on credible scientific exchange, compliant insight capture, and engagement with external experts, investigators, and treatment centers.
  • Lead external engagement in hematologic malignancies, including advisory boards, investigator relationships, disease-area thought leader engagement, and interactions with cooperative groups and broader scientific communities.
  • Represent the company as a senior medical leader to external experts, investigators, and scientific leaders, establishing the company as a credible scientific leader in hematologic malignancies and targeted protein degradation.
  • Direct publication and scientific communication strategy for key clinical data, congress presentations, medical content, symposia, and educational initiatives.
  • Lead integrated evidence-generation strategies spanning registrational support, post-marketing evidence development, real-world evidence, health economics and outcomes research, treatment sequencing, and product differentiation opportunities.
  • Partner with Commercial and Market Access so medical strategy informs launch readiness, access planning, scientific platform development, training initiatives, and broader commercialization strategy.
  • Monitor the external hematology-oncology landscape, including standards-of-care evolution, competitor data, treatment guidelines, and emerging scientific trends, and translate insights into actionable medical strategy.
  • Ensure Medical Affairs activities comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and company standards.
  • Provide medical and scientific leadership in executive governance discussions concerning portfolio prioritization, lifecycle strategy, label expansion opportunities, external partnerships, and commercialization readiness.
  • Support global Medical Affairs planning and coordination, including scientific congress strategy, evidence-generation activities, and external engagement initiatives across key regions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in highly innovative therapeutic platforms, first-in-class mechanisms, or rapidly evolving treatment landscapes is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and scale high-performing Medical Affairs organizations in emerging biotechnology or growth-stage commercial settings is preferred.

About the company

Nurix Therapeutics develops drugs that use the body's own protein-degradation system to treat diseases. Its core approach is to control ubiquitin E3 ligases, enzymes that tag unwanted proteins for breakdown in cells. By modulating these ligases, Nurix aims to create therapeutics, especially small-molecule immuno-oncology agents, that can selectively remove disease-related proteins in cancer and other serious conditions. The company operates by discovering and developing drug candidates and earning revenue through partnerships, licensing, and potential future sales of its medicines. Unlike many biotech firms that target single proteins, Nurix focuses on the protein-degradation pathway to influence multiple disease processes through carefully designed molecules. The goal is to bring new cancer treatments and other therapies to patients by advancing its degrader-based drugs through research, collaboration, and development toward commercial use.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Brisbane, California

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • On June 8, 2026, Roche paid $700 million upfront, lifting cash to $1.14 billion.
  • August 4, 2026 brought first patient enrollment in Phase 3 DAYBreak CLL-306.
  • June 11, 2026 data showed 142 CLL patients, no dose-limiting toxicities, and 5.6% discontinuations.

What critics are saying

  • May 31, 2026 cash was $443.5 million before Roche closing, so execution depends on milestones.
  • March 2026 ATM capacity reached $413.65 million, signaling persistent dilution risk for shareholders.
  • Bexobrutideg still faces Phase 3 failure risk against pirtobrutinib and other BTK standards.

What makes Nurix Therapeutics unique

  • Nurix’s 2026 Roche deal validates bexobrutideg as a brain-penetrant BTK degrader platform.
  • Its protein-degradation engine targets E3 ligases, extending beyond BTK into CBL-B, AURKA, and BRAF.
  • Roche will co-commercialize U.S. indications and fund 60% of development starting 2026.

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Yahoo Finance
Oct 12th, 2026
Nurix revenue jumps to $673M on Roche deal, but shares slip 2% after hours

Nurix Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NRIX) reported third quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $673.1 million on Monday, up from $7.9 million a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share were $4.73, against a loss of $1.03 per share in the prior-year period. The jump came mainly from $653.2 million in licence revenue from its Roche collaboration and a $10 million development milestone payment from Sanofi. Shares fell 2% in after-hours trading, though they were up nearly 8% shortly after. Research and development expenses fell to $79.3 million from $86.1 million, due to cost sharing with Roche. General and administrative expenses rose to $34.4 million from $13.2 million, driven by one-time costs from the Roche deal. Nurix dosed the first patient in its Phase 3 trial of bexobrutideg in relapsed or refractory CLL/SLL. Cash and securities totalled $1.1 billion as of August 31, 2026, which the company said funds operations into the second half of 2029.

Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.
Sep 29th, 2026
Press releases.

Press releases. Nurix Therapeutics announces achievement of $7 million milestone under strategic collaboration with Pfizer. September 29, 2026 Milestone reflects continued progress in collaboration to develop a novel class of degrader antibody conjugates, or DACs. BRISBANE, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRIX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted protein degradation medicines, today announced the achievement of a $7 million research milestone under its strategic collaboration with Pfizer for the discovery and development of degrader antibody conjugates (DACs). Nurix entered into the collaboration with Seagen Inc., now part of Pfizer, in September 2023. Under the terms of the agreement, Nurix received an upfront payment of $60 million and became eligible to receive up to $3.4 billion in potential research, development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments across multiple programs, as well as mid-single-digit to low-double-digit percentage tiered royalties on future product sales. Nurix also retains an option for U.S. profit sharing and co-promotion on up to two products arising from the collaboration. In connection with today's announcement, Nurix will receive a $7 million milestone payment from Pfizer, which will bring the total amount received under this agreement to $82 million. About Degrader Antibody Conjugates (DACs) DACs are an emerging therapeutic modality designed to combine the cell and tissue selectivity of antibodies with the catalytic mechanism of targeted protein degraders. Unlike traditional antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), which typically deliver cytotoxic payloads to antigen-expressing cells, DACs deliver targeted protein degraders designed to eliminate specific disease-driving proteins. This approach has the potential to provide multiple layers of selectivity based on cell-surface antigen expression, the intracellular protein target and E3 ligase expression. About Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. Nurix Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted protein degradation medicines, a new frontier in drug discovery aimed at improving treatment options for patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases. Nurix's clinical-stage oncology pipeline includes bexobrutideg, a degrader of BTK being co-developed with Roche, and NX-1607, an inhibitor of Casitas B-lineage lymphoma proto-oncogene B (CBL-B), an E3 ligase that regulates activation of multiple immune cell types including T cells and NK cells. Nurix's autoimmune disease pipeline includes bexobrutideg in collaboration with Roche and clinical-stage degraders of IRAK4 in collaboration with Gilead and STAT6 in collaboration with Sanofi. Nurix is also advancing multiple potentially first-in-class or best-in-class degraders and degrader antibody conjugates in its wholly owned preclinical pipeline and under collaboration agreements with Gilead Sciences, Inc., Sanofi S.A. and Pfizer Inc., within which Nurix retains certain options for co-development, co-commercialization and profit sharing in the United States for multiple drug candidates. Powered by an AI-integrated discovery engine capable of tackling virtually any protein class, and coupled with unparalleled ligase expertise, Nurix's dedicated team has built a formidable advantage in translating the science of targeted protein degradation into clinical advancements. Nurix aims to establish degrader-based treatments at the forefront of patient care, writing medicine's next chapter with a new script to outmatch disease. Nurix is headquartered in Brisbane, California. For additional information, visit www.nurixtx.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains statements that relate to future events and expectations and as such constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements that reflect Nurix's expectations, assumptions or projections about the future, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding: Nurix's expectations for its collaboration with Pfizer; the potential benefits of Nurix's collaboration with Pfizer; the potential benefits of degrader antibody conjugates; and the potential achievement of milestone, royalty and license payments under the Nurix-Pfizer collaboration. Forward-looking statements reflect Nurix's current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Although Nurix believes such expectations and assumptions are reasonable, Nurix can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict, which could cause Nurix's actual activities and results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: (i) the ability of each party to perform its obligations under the Nurix-Pfizer collaboration; (ii) whether the parties will be able to successfully conduct and complete preclinical development, clinical development and commercialization of any drug candidates under the Nurix-Pfizer collaboration; (iii) the unexpected emergence of adverse events or other undesirable side effects during preclinical and clinical development; (iv) whether Nurix will be able to fund development activities and achieve development goals, including those under the Nurix-Pfizer collaboration; (v) risks and uncertainties relating to the timing and receipt of payments from Nurix's collaboration partners, including milestone payments and royalties on future potential product sales; and (vi) other risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in Nurix's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended May 31, 2026, and other SEC filings. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release, even if subsequently made available by Nurix on its website or otherwise. Nurix disclaims any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether in response to new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Contacts: Media and Investors Kris Fortner Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. [email protected]

Yahoo Finance
Aug 20th, 2026
Nurix Therapeutics appoints Wes Burwell as chief human resources officer

Nurix Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted protein degradation medicines, has appointed Wes Burwell as chief human resources officer. Burwell will join the company's executive management team and lead its human resources organisation as it advances its late-stage clinical pipeline and prepares for commercialisation. Burwell brings over 20 years of human resources leadership experience in life sciences. He previously served as vice president of human resources at Bolt Biotherapeutics and held senior HR roles at Global Blood Therapeutics, where he supported the company's growth from early clinical development through successful commercialisation of its first therapy. Arthur T. Sands, president and chief executive officer of Nurix, said Burwell's experience in scaling organisations and fostering high-performing cultures makes him an exceptional addition as the company prepares for its next growth phase.

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Jun 8th, 2026
Roche enters into billion-dollar deal with Nurix for blood cancer drug Bexobrutideg.

Roche enters into billion-dollar deal with Nurix for blood cancer drug Bexobrutideg. Roche and the US biotech company Nurix Therapeutics want to jointly develop and market the drug Bexobrutideg. 07.06.2026 23:01 The drug is intended to treat blood cancer (BTK), certain skin diseases and multiple sclerosis, as the pharmaceutical company Roche announced on Monday. Bexobrutideg belongs to a new class of drugs that specifically break down the protein BTK - an important switch in the immune system - instead of merely blocking it. This is intended to overcome resistance that occurs with current therapies. Nurix receives an upfront payment of 700 million US dollars and possible further payments of up to 2.3 billion dollars. The two companies share the development costs, with Roche covering 60 percent. In the US, both companies will market the drug together; outside the US, Roche will handle sales alone. A pivotal phase III study for the treatment of blood cancer - specifically chronic lymphocytic leukemia - is expected to start in summer 2026. As Roche further writes, blood cancer-targeting agents represent a leading class within the growing markets for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and CLL. The overall market is forecast to reach a volume of 41 billion dollars by 2031, with BTK inhibitors (BTKi) remaining the highest-revenue class at about 19 billion dollars. 'This growth is particularly evident in the CLL sector, which is projected to increase from 12 billion US dollars in 2024 to 16 billion US dollars by 2035,' the statement continues.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 8th, 2026
Nurix bags $700M upfront from Roche in BTK degrader bexobrutideg collaboration worth up to $2.3B

Nurix Therapeutics has announced a global collaboration with Roche to co-develop and co-commercialise bexobrutideg, a BTK degrader targeting malignant hematology, immunology and neurology. Nurix will receive an upfront payment of $700 million and is eligible for development, regulatory and sales milestones totalling up to $2.3 billion. The partnership combines Nurix's protein degradation expertise with Roche's B-cell therapy portfolio and global infrastructure. The clinical development plan builds on the ongoing pivotal programme in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and includes combination regimens across B-cell malignancies, plus Phase 2 trials in multiple sclerosis and chronic spontaneous urticaria. Profits and losses will be shared equally in the United States, with Nurix receiving royalties on sales outside the US.